Quote Originally Posted by zach5993
That makes sense, the questions that we want the answers to the most ( truth of afterlife, point of life) are unanswerable and if we do attempt to answer them, it will destroy our lifes?
Well... i think it would "destroy our lifes" because our lifes are based upon illusions, and misconceptions about everything. We humans are so lost that we dont even know that were lost. It like the Matrix.
How it would be to realize that everything you believed that was "real" and "your life" was only an illusion?
BTW, Matrix is much more real than people thinks... not that we live a computer-simulated life, but, what we call "reality" is an illusion created by ours senses and our mind. This point is discussed also in many different religions (mainly the oriental ones), as well as in shamanism, magic religions and so.
There is one part in us that fears the unknown, and likes its confortable and known life, so this part makes all the efforts to shut up any perceptions or glimpses we may have about the "true" nature of the reality. Thats why people feels "divided" after experiences like that. One part of your mind wants to live the "real" life, but another part wants to keep you pinned down to the "illusional" life, cause its well known to it.
To choose between reality or illusion is to choose which mind you will hear, and which mind you will ignore.
Note that the mind which lives in illusion is VERY cunning, so it will make everything possible for deny the "real". It will use ALL rational arguments, it will make you feel sad, it will use anything at hand for trying to led you again to the illusion.
But remember that your perception [of the nirvana] was beyond words, beyond reasoning, beyond feelings, so dont let this perception of the nirvana be clouded by words, or reasonings, of feelings, or whatever. They all are just your "illusion-liking" mind trying to dominate again. So,
May the force be with you.

PS. BTW, this illusion-liking mind is not actually ours... its a "foreign instalation", in the words of Don Juan Matus. But i wont enter in detail here...